10 new COVID-19 cases have been announced this afternoon - 3 cases are from Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Nabua, 1 from Tacirua, 3 from Muanikoso, 1 from Kinoya and 1 from Navosai in Narere.
QEB in Nabua has been under total lockdown after confirmation of the 3 cases.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the 10th case has not yet been linked to any other cases at this early stage of the investigation.
The 10th case is a member of the Fiji Navy from Tacirua who presented to the Nuffield Health Centre in Tamavua with symptoms, where he was swabbed and tested positive.
Doctor Fong says this tenth case was identified through the community surveillance programme, which includes swabbing of people who present with symptoms to screening clinics or health centres.
He says depending on what their investigations reveal about this case, the Ministry may recommend extensions of health protection measures.
The Permanent Secretary says nine are contacts of earlier announced cases that were identified through ongoing contact tracing and screening investigations.
There are now 109 active cases in isolation, with the total number of cases recorded in Fiji since the first case in March 2020 now at 248.
He says they have had 135 recoveries and 4 deaths.
The Health Ministry has now conducted 585,709 screenings and 27,026 swabs through the community mobile screening program, in addition to screenings at health facilities and fixed screening clinics and the contact-tracing screenings conducted for positive cases.
